Messiah Baptist Church
Messiah Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 13-17 Oak Street in East Orange, NJ 07018. It is one of 78 churches in East Orange, and one of 12 Baptist congregations in the city.
Our worship and service must be exemplified through our continued compassion for others!
13-17 Oak Street, East Orange, NJ, 07018Phone: (973) 676-7374 · Website: http://www.messiahmovement.org/
Messiah Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 706 congregations of the Baptist family gather across New Jersey — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Ministries at Messiah Baptist Church
- Food Program
- Medical Care
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The community around Messiah Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 40.4%
- Food Insecurity: 36.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 20.5%
- Unemployment: 14.5% (7.2–21.7%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.3%
- Diabetes: 15.5%
- Obesity: 37.9%
- Poverty Rate: 18.1% (9.9–26.3%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.8% (2.9–22.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
East Orange city is served by 34 churches — about one congregation for every 2,025 residents.
Churches near Messiah Baptist Church
- Star House International Church — 0.2 mi away
- Imani Baptist Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Elmwood United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of Light — 0.3 mi away
- Greater Works Apostolic Ministry — 0.4 mi away
- Peaceful Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Grace Apostolic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Emmanuel Worship Center In New Jersey — 0.4 mi away
- Church at the Crossroads — 0.4 mi away
- Salem French Seventh-Day Adventist Church — 0.4 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Imani Baptist Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Peaceful Zion Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Faith Temple Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Divinity Missionary Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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